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Jeffrey Potter (0 KP) rated Expeditionary Force: Book 1 - Columbus Day in Books
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While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury...
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The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the...
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Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise, and he's going to keep it: taking the captured alien starship...
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While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure people that hostile aliens...
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The...
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Christine A. (965 KP) rated Expeditionary Force: Book 1 - Columbus Day in Books
Aug 10, 2020
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Martian by Andy Weir, and the movie Independence Day all have one important aspect in common - humor. Without the levity, all three would be boring and forgotten works left in a drawer somewhere. Reading the humorous description of the first book in Craig Alanson's Expeditionary Force series, Columbus Day, I knew I had to read it and wondered why I had not read it before now.
The Ruhar attacks the world on, you guessed it, Columbus Day. We thought we were saved when the Kristang flew in and attacked the Ruhar. We else were we to do but pick the side of the guys who saved us. As we quickly learn, we made the wrong move.
Having the narrator of The Maritan, R.C. Bray, narrate Columbus Day was a stroke of genius. He again proves he can skillfully deliver snarky, "American" humor while making the end of the world as we know no laughing matter.
To date, there are ten books in the series, but Alanson ended it at a point in the story Columbus Day could work as a stand-alone novel, although readers would be remiss in not continuing,
This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 8/10/20.